Blank for stocking foot devices



Aug. 31, 1954 w J PAUL 2,687,583

BLANK FOR STOCKING FOOT DEVICES Filed April 22. 1952 Aura/me, ware-e d. 1 /706 4770eA/Ef Patented Aug. 31, 1954 BLANK FOR STOCKING FOOT DEVICES Walter J. Paul, Vista, Calif.

Original application March 24, 1951, Serial No. 217,378. Divided and this application April 22,

1952, Serial No. 283,653

2 Claims. 1

The present application is a division of my copending application titled Blank and Method for Making Stocking Feet, Serial No. 217,378, filed March 24, 1951, and the present invention confrom which to produce stocking feet or stocking,

feet devices.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is described in the following specification, while the cerns the blank described in the specification of 5 broad scope of the invention is pointed out in the that application and which is illustrated in the appended claims. drawing filed therewith. In the drawing:

One of the objects of the present invention is Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating the preto produce a blank having a form that greatly ferred form of the blank. facilitates the cutting of the blanks from a con- Figure 2 is a side elevation of the stocking foot siderable number of layers of flimsy knit mateas it would appear when lying substantially flatly rial in one cutting operation; this greatly reduces upon a surface, and constructed of one of the the cost of manufacture of these articles-stockblanks constituting this invention. ing feet made from such blanks. Referring to Figure 1, it will be noted that from Heretofore, I have manufactured stocking feet the point 9 the upper edges of the blank diverge of the kind referred to, constructed with a sole so as to form a re-entrant angle 9a at this point. seam that extended up to the tip of the toe of This is an obtuse angle approximately slightly the stocking foot. At the point where this toe less than 180 degrees. By giving this portion of seam intersected the front-and-rear upper edges the outline of the blank this form of outline the of the vamp of the stocking foot, it has been material at the toe 28 of the completed stocking necessary heretofore to cut out some of the mafoot 29 is disposed in such a way that substanterial there and to provide a short cross-seam tially no excess of material will develop when the in the stocking foot to prevent developing an exstocking foot is put on ones foot. cess of material at the tip of the toe. The neces- In producing the stocking foot from the blank, sity for employing these cross-seams considerably the outer edges or sides 8a, of the blank are sewed increases the cost of manufacture. to form a sole seam 30, the rear portion of which Another object of the present invention is to is extended up to merge into the heel seam 3!. In give an outline for the blank that will enable a doing this, of course, the folded edge 3a and 4a stocking foot to be made that will eliminate the is present as the vampline of the stocking foot. necessity for removing the excess material just 30 The two edges 16a and H51) are formed into narreferred to, at the toe, and which results in giving row hems I60 enveloping the usual slightly elastic suificient material at the tip of the toe to attain cord, not illustrated, the ends of which are located a form-fitting effect at this point, in other words, at the point 32. without developing any excess of material there, In the completed article one set of the threads that is, at the point where the cross seam was of the material in each side of the completed formerly located. article should extend in a general longitudinal Another object of the invention is to provide direction, along the side, that is to say, in a gena blank of symmetrical form and presenting two eral horizontal direction as viewed in Figure 2. lobes or extensions located on opposite sides of its hi feature is most advantageous because it reaxial line, in which the direction in which the duces the amount of natural stretch charactersaid lobes extend with respect to said axis faciliistic of the material and insures that the stocking tates the position of the cutting die that makes feet will substantially maintain thesize to which the blanks so that the knife when cutting they are out. through a succession of layers of stock connected Many other embodiments of the invention may by folded edges, will result in having the lines of be resorted to without departing from the spirit knitting in a direction on the lobes that tends to of the invention. maintain the stocking feet at the size for which I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent: they are intended. 1. A one-piece blank for making a form fitting Further objects of the invention will appear low cut stocking foot from knit material, said from a careful reading of the drawing accomblank having an intermediate toe portion and panying this application and the description spaced apart diverging free ends arranged to form thereof in the following specification. the heel portion of the stocking foot when the The invention consists in a blank having the parts of the blank are assembled to form the novel features to be described hereinafter, all of stocking foot, said toe portion having a centrally which contribute to produce an efficient blank disposed axial line separating the blank into two no excess of material, said lobes having slightly concave inner edges which diverge from a point of origin on said axial line and form an angle of substantially 90 with each other; and the convex outer side of each of the lobes adjacent the free ends having a substantially straight side that intersects the adjacent concave inner edges at an acute angle.

2. A one-piece blank for making a form fitting low cut stocking foot fromknit material, said blank having an intermediate toe portion and spaced apart diverging free ends arranged to formthe heel portion of the stocking foot when the parts of the blank are assembled to form the stocking foot, said toe portion having a centrally disposed axial line separating the blank into two uniform and similarly shaped lobes, each of said lobes having an outer side formed with convex edges at its toe and heel portions, the convex edges on each lobe being connected by a concave edge of pronounced concavity, the convex edges of the toe portion merging and forming an obtuse re-entrant angle approaching 180, the vertex of which is on the axial line of the blank so that when the stocking foot is formed there is no excess of material, said lobes having slightly concave inner edges which diverge from a point of origin on said axial line and form an angle of substantially 90 with each other; and the convex outer side of each of the lobes adjacent the free ends having a substantially straight edge that intersects the adjacent concave inner sides at an acute angle.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 252,778 Klein Jan. 24, 1882 1,335,156 Burke Mar. 30,1920 1,417,347 Rains May 23, 1922 1,912,539 Paul June 6, 1933 2,038,844 Le Dori Apr. 28, 1936 2,344,773 Herbert Mar. 21, 19% 2,391.165 Kasket Dec. 18, 1945 

